In today’s political climate, the term gender-affirming care is often framed as controversial and used synonymously with “transgender for everyone.” In reality, gender-affirming care includes a wide range of medical, mental health, and supportive services that both cisgender and transgender people access every day to align their bodies, health, and well-being with their gender.
In this episode, we’re exploring what gender-affirming care actually is, its history and evolution, and the medical and political landscape shaping the conversation today.
Additional Resources:
- Read Besties in Crime
- Gender Incongruence and Transgender Health in the ICD
- Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People: Q&A with Theodore Schall and Jacob Moses
- To Protect Gender-Affirming Care, We Must Learn From Trans History
- What is Gender Dysphoria?
- Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom: A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
- Elmer Belt, Harry Benjamin, and the Birth of Gender-Affirming Surgery in the United States
- Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration
- Puberty Blockers for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth
- What are Puberty Blockers? What Are the Benefits and Risks for Transgender Children?
- Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT)
- Utilization and Costs of Gender-Affirming Care in a Commercially Insured Transgender Population
- How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
- Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Heath Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
- MACPAC Releases 2024 Edition of MACStats: Medicaid and CHIP Data Book